North Carolina Black or African American Alone Voting-age Population By County in Census 2020
According to the data from the US 2020 decennial Census, as at April 2020, among all the North Carolina voting-age population (18 years and over), there were 1,639,043 people who identified their race as Black or African American Alone, which is 20.10% of the total voting-age population of North Carolina.
Mecklenburg County had the highest number of Black or African American Alone voting-age population (250,649), followed by Wake County (157,662), and Guilford County (138,672).
On the other hand, the three counties with low number of Black or African American Alone voting-age population were: Graham County (36), Mitchell County (41), and Clay County (53).
In terms of the percentage of each county's voting-age population, Bertie County had the highest percentage, with 59.08% of its voting-age population identifying their race as Black or African American Alone, followed by Hertford County (55.81%), and Edgecombe County (55.06%).
You can see similar information for other states and also for the United States by state. You can also see similar information for other racial groups as well as the different ethnicities in North Carolina.
Hover over or click on the counties to see the number and percentage of each county's voting-age population that identified as Black or African American Alone. The data can also be filtered, sorted, and explored further in a table below.
County | Black Alone Voting-age Population | % of County Voting-age Population |
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Alamance County | 26095 | 19.48 |
Alexander County | 1648 | 5.63 |
Alleghany County | 89 | 1.00 |
Anson County | 7874 | 44.12 |
Ashe County | 97 | 0.44 |
Avery County | 662 | 4.38 |
Beaufort County | 7993 | 22.20 |
Bertie County | 8800 | 59.08 |
Bladen County | 7645 | 32.64 |
Brunswick County | 9248 | 7.93 |
Buncombe County | 11911 | 5.42 |
Burke County | 4034 | 5.76 |
Cabarrus County | 30611 | 18.27 |
Caldwell County | 3040 | 4.72 |
Camden County | 871 | 11.04 |
Carteret County | 2695 | 4.79 |
Caswell County | 5757 | 30.96 |
Catawba County | 10004 | 7.90 |
Chatham County | 6390 | 10.51 |
Cherokee County | 277 | 1.15 |
Chowan County | 3449 | 31.03 |
Clay County | 53 | 0.57 |
Cleveland County | 15284 | 19.59 |
Columbus County | 11553 | 28.66 |
Craven County | 15609 | 19.56 |
Cumberland County | 95657 | 37.59 |
Currituck County | 1100 | 5.00 |
Dare County | 563 | 1.85 |
Davidson County | 12161 | 9.20 |
Davie County | 1925 | 5.70 |
Duplin County | 9129 | 24.64 |
Durham County | 87670 | 33.78 |
Edgecombe County | 21025 | 55.06 |
Forsyth County | 73000 | 24.55 |
Franklin County | 12416 | 23.36 |
Gaston County | 29660 | 16.68 |
Gates County | 2504 | 30.01 |
Graham County | 36 | 0.56 |
Granville County | 14837 | 30.79 |
Greene County | 6037 | 36.44 |
Guilford County | 138672 | 32.72 |
Halifax County | 19564 | 50.20 |
Harnett County | 20043 | 20.44 |
Haywood County | 550 | 1.08 |
Henderson County | 2643 | 2.80 |
Hertford County | 9844 | 55.81 |
Hoke County | 12465 | 33.27 |
Hyde County | 1027 | 27.13 |
Iredell County | 16082 | 11.18 |
Jackson County | 792 | 2.21 |
Johnston County | 24948 | 15.58 |
Jones County | 2160 | 28.87 |
Lee County | 8311 | 17.17 |
Lenoir County | 16899 | 39.37 |
Lincoln County | 3587 | 5.24 |
McDowell County | 1451 | 4.05 |
Macon County | 202 | 0.67 |
Madison County | 210 | 1.20 |
Martin County | 7019 | 39.85 |
Mecklenburg County | 250649 | 29.14 |
Mitchell County | 41 | 0.34 |
Montgomery County | 3343 | 16.57 |
Moore County | 8307 | 10.62 |
Nash County | 28419 | 38.11 |
New Hanover County | 21227 | 11.53 |
Northampton County | 7784 | 54.16 |
Onslow County | 20997 | 13.33 |
Orange County | 12836 | 10.74 |
Pamlico County | 1794 | 17.12 |
Pasquotank County | 11336 | 35.47 |
Pender County | 6227 | 13.36 |
Perquimans County | 2193 | 20.70 |
Person County | 7743 | 25.01 |
Pitt County | 45019 | 34.03 |
Polk County | 561 | 3.46 |
Randolph County | 6761 | 6.02 |
Richmond County | 9739 | 29.30 |
Robeson County | 20315 | 22.97 |
Rockingham County | 13456 | 18.49 |
Rowan County | 17649 | 15.35 |
Rutherford County | 4665 | 9.07 |
Sampson County | 11101 | 24.70 |
Scotland County | 10046 | 37.42 |
Stanly County | 5456 | 11.08 |
Stokes County | 1377 | 3.82 |
Surry County | 1978 | 3.51 |
Swain County | 92 | 0.84 |
Transylvania County | 797 | 2.92 |
Tyrrell County | 760 | 29.53 |
Union County | 19841 | 11.41 |
Vance County | 16015 | 48.72 |
Wake County | 157662 | 18.33 |
Warren County | 7281 | 47.61 |
Washington County | 4154 | 46.94 |
Watauga County | 1983 | 4.26 |
Wayne County | 27408 | 30.28 |
Wilkes County | 2121 | 4.03 |
Wilson County | 23054 | 37.76 |
Yadkin County | 888 | 3.01 |
Yancey County | 90 | 0.60 |